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Chicago’s Plan for Sick Trees: Turn Them into Art
Artists turn trees devastated by a pest into works of public art, calling attention to the problem and creating opportunities for unexpected artistic encounters across the city.
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Required Reading
This week, an underground restaurant, political lives of medieval manuscripts, the need to claim (physical) QTBIPoC spaces, Harold Pinter's catty side, and more.
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Three Postwar American Painters Who Were Too European for New York
Long before globalism became a buzzword, Norman Bluhm, San Francis, and Paul Jenkins joined the artists and intellectuals from around the world in postwar Paris.
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A Cerebral Portraitist‘s Unaccountable Neglect
In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcia Marcus’s conceptual approach to portraiture.
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The Next Siren Wail
How do we get home from here?
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Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.
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A Painter’s Theater of Destitution
The fifteen realist paintings in Linden Frederick: Night Stories take us on a tour of small-town Maine.
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The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project
Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.
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Throughout New York’s Chinatown, Telling Immigrant Stories Through Dance
In Mei-Yin Ng’s "Sit, Eat, Chew," performers take you on a tour through Chinatown's apartments, restaurants, museums, and parks, while sharing personal immigrant stories.
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A Virtual Project Connects Visitors to Holocaust Survivors and Their Stories
New Dimensions in Testimony invites visitors to the Museum of Jewish Heritage to have a virtual conversation with a Holocaust survivor.
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Playing with the Privilege to Make Art About Anything
Dominique Duroseau's exhibition shows us what black bodies look like when "glamoured" by a racist imagination.
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The Lovingly Crafted Horror of American Haunted Houses
Misty Keasler explored 13 haunted houses across the United States, photographing their blood-spattered interiors and dark architecture of terror.